I Talk Like a River

Name: I Talk Like a River
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Jordan Scott
ISBN: 9781666543933

Author: Jordan Scott

Narrator: Jordan Scott

Unabridged: 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 11/26/2020

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes, Children's Poetry

Synopsis

When a boy who stutters feels isolated, alone, and incapable of communicating in the way he'd like, it takes a kindly father and a walk by the river to help him find his voice. Through this powerful and uplifting story, poet Jordan Scott uses his own experiences to reveal what it’s like to be a child who feels lost, lonely, or unable to fit in. Compassionate parents everywhere will recognize how they, too, can reconnect their children to the world around them.

About Jordan Scott

Jordan Scott is a poet whose work includes Silt, Blert, DECOMP, and Night & Ox. The recipient of the 2018 Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize for his contributions to Canadian poetry, he has also written a book for children entitled I Talk Like a River. He currently resides with his wife and two sons in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island.

About Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith is an award-winning picture-book illustrator who began illustrating his own work with his debut children’s book Small in the City. The award-winning illustrator of The White Cat and the Monk, Sidewalk Flowers, and Town is by the Sea, he has received two Governor General's Awards for Illustrated Children's Books and four New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year citations. He currently resides in Toronto.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rosh

A beautiful story-in-verse about a boy who “talks like a river”. Written in first person, the story is narrated by a little boy who can’t pronounce some letters. They get stuck at the back of his throat, they grow roots inside his mouth, they just make him mumble instead of speak. This affects him a......more

Goodreads review by Betsy

James Earl Jones stuttered. Marilyn Monroe stuttered. Joe Biden, Tim Gunn, Samuel L. Jackson, Kendrick Lamar, Nicole Kidman, the list goes on and on and on. Children’s books about stuttering? Thin on the ground. When you’re a children’s librarian, every interaction on the reader’s advisory desk can......more

Goodreads review by Dave

“I wake up each morning with the sounds of words all around me.” I both read this (initially because I am a fan of the illustrator, Sydney Smith) and listened to it. This is a lovely book about a kid (who was actually Jordan Scott, the author) who grows up stuttering. Poetic, lyrical, capturing the p......more

Goodreads review by Chantel

An audiobook so bewilderingly beautiful; enthrallingly touching & tender, I am humbled, appreciative & mesmerized by Scott's writing, the metaphors & the reality which is explored in this story.......more